Understanding of anhedonia: from traditional to phenomenological analysis of the phenomena

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The article is written in the form of a survey lecture highlighting the modern views of scientists on the phenomenon of anhedonia. A comparative analysis of the traditional psychiatric view of anhedonia with the phenomenological one is carried out. The specificity of anhedonia as a psychopathological symptom and as a psychological phenomenon is shown, as well as the features of the manifestation of anhedonia in neurological diseases. For practicing psychiatrists, the aspect of differentiation of anhedonia may be important, allowing one to choose the most adequate ways of correcting it between psychotherapeutic interventions, prescribing antidepressants with a proven anti-anhedonic effect or atypical antipsychotics.

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Vladimir D. Mendelevich

Kazan State Medical University

Author for correspondence.
Email: mendelevich_vl@mail.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0001-8489-3130
SPIN-code: 2302-2590
Scopus Author ID: 6602765981
ResearcherId: O-4908-2016

Dr. Sci. (Med.), Professor, Head of department of psychiatry and medical psychology

Russian Federation, Kazan, Butlerova str., 49, 420012

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